Dickson Hughes
Настоящее имя: Dickson Hughes
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American composer, songwriter and pianist (Akron, Ohio, USA, December 14, 1922 - Palm Springs, California, USA, June 18, 2005). Hughes teamed up with Richard Stapley to write a musical revue, "About Time" and three songs for the film "The Restless Breed," starring Anne Bancroft. They were then commissioned by Gloria Swanson to write a musical version of "Sunset Boulevard," in which she hoped to make a stage comeback. Production plans fell through when Paramount, although it had verbally granted permission for the theatrical adaptation, ultimately denied it. A new musical, "Swanson on Sunset", was written by Dickson Hughes with the permission of Richard Stapley, based on their adventures while writing the ill-fated musical "Boulevard!"], and premiered in December 1994 in Los Angeles.